Charlotte Brontė (Routledge Library Editions: The Brontės) - Softcover

Pollard, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138929573 ISBN 13: 9781138929579

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Within the narrow confines of Haworth Parsonage the Brontė children constructed a multiform fantasy world and to their gift of intense imagination was added the quality of intense passion. The narrowness of Charlotte’s experience makes autobiography important in her novels, while her imagination and passion exalt the subjectivity of her work. Her style is autobiographical also, adding credibility to the often heightened narrative, while the moralism of her heroines often serves to stabilise this exaggeration.

This book, first published in 1968, introduces extracts from the novels of Charlotte Brontė, emphasising the author’s subjectivity, imagination and the resultant heightening of dialogue and experience. There is a central section on her heroines, while others discuss and illustrate events, other characters, the handling of time and place, speech and dialogue and the author’s place in novels. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138929573
• ISBN 13: 9781138929579
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 130